Gregory's Server@HeavenlyPossum to quote Brennan Lee Mulligan, as evil lich Robert Moses, "People think they make choices. They think they're gonna steer right, or steer left, but they didn't build the roads. The big choices already got made for them a long time ago."
It's true of transit choices - if there isn't a route to get somewhere, you really can't choose to go there regardless of how much you may want to - and it's just as true of most "choices" consumers make. We get to choose *from* whatever is available on the store shelves, but we don't get to choose *what* is available on the store shelves.
@malkavon
We also don’t get to choose whether there are “stores,” or whether we’ll need to acquire things from them, or how those stores will part with things. Even something as self-evidently “obvious” as the hierarchical, profit-seeking firm is the result of violence.